About Me | Elm Tree | DNA Replication Project

About Me

My name is Desiree, You can usually find me either with my friend or family. i love watching baseball and football, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are my favorite baseball team. My dad passed away in 2008, so it's just me, my mom and my big brother Dustin living at home. I live my life the fullest and usually always have a smile on my face.

Elm Tree

1. Name- Elm Tree
2. scientific name- Ulmus americana
3. Organism that infects tree- Dutch elm disease
4. Provides habitat or food for- Song birds, mice, squirrels, woodchucks and opossums eat the fruit and seeds.
5. Justify classification of tree to related trees - how is your tree related to other trees in its class? What does it have in common, etc.-
6. Commercial use of tree- Flooring and furniture
7. Twig characteristic- red brown and mostly hairless with black red striped ovoid buds
8. Where tree is found in the world (native to pa?) Eastern North America
9. Draw or find a picture of a drawing of the leaf.

Coir

Your fiber choices are: bamboo, cotton, wool, flax (linen), nylon, sisal, jute, polyester, silk, spandex, coir

1. Where it is grown in the world?

India, and costal region of Kerala State

1. Items made from the fiber (discuss examples from a wide sampling of places around the world).

Floor mats, twine, floor tiles, mattresses, and brushes.

1. Interesting information about the grain and how it is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coir

DNA Replication Project

Key

Step 1

This picture shows the DNA before it starts replicating.

Step 2

Step two shows where the DNA begins to unzip itself and starts to lose hydrogen bonds.

Step 3

DNA begins to reconnect.

Step 4

DNA forms two separate strands and hydrogen bonds begin to reform.



Cloning- using a nucleus taken from an adult sheep cell that had been going in culture.

Telomeres- The long ends at the bottom of the chromosome.

Okazako Fragments- Where the polymerase of DNA can begin to synthesize a section of complementary strand.

Telomerase- An enzyme that increases telomere to the end of DNA strands.

DNA Ligase- Sews the Okazaki Fragments together.

Cancer- Can divide itself as many times as it wants, slow down the aging of tissue and grow into tumors.

Transplanted Cells- These also have to ability to divide themselves as many times as they want, however they die out.

Aging- The changes that occur over time in an organism.